Tinicum Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Tinicum Township is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. In 1643, the Swedish colonists from New Sweden founded Fort Nya Gothenborg at the site of present-day Tinicum, and governor Johan Bjornsson Printz built his manor house on Tinicum Island. The area later became home to the first quarantine hospital in the United States, the Philadelphia Lazaretto, and, in 2016, Tinicum had a population of 4,103 people.